Raleigh, N.C. — Sources have told WRAL News that they expect former U.S. Sen. John Edwards to admit that he is the father of his former mistress’ 18-month-old daughter.

Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, confessed last August to having an affair with Rielle Hunter, who served as a videographer on Edwards’ 2008 campaign. He has denied fathering her daughter, saying his relationship with Hunter ended before the child was conceived.

The name of the girl’s father isn’t disclosed on her birth certificate.

Andrew Young, a long-time Edwards aide, initially claimed to be the father of Hunter’s child, but he is reportedly writing a book in which he will claim Edwards is the father.

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Sources said Edwards’ public admission could come before the end of the criminal investigation.

I’m trying to figure out why he didn’t make this admission when he first confessed to the affair? I mean, at that point his political career was pretty much over – why not go all the way? Then again, as I’ve noted numerous times before, this man is a slick pathological liar and will dodge and weave and lie on just about any issue.

I wish his illegitimate young daughter the best life has to offer. Hopefully she’ll never know how hard her father tried to deny the fact that she was his.

Cross-posted to the Public Secrets blog, where I am guestblogging for the vacationing Anthony this week.

Democrats/statists in the public eye will lie until the very last moment… telling the truth is usually a no-way-out, last-ditch “crap, I’ve really painted myself in a corner” dramatic media scene. And when they DO tell the unflattering truth, they are really gosh-almighty proud of themselves. And they want everyone else to be proud of them for taking the high road for a change, giving them accolades and ice cream sundaes and unicorns and gushing testimonials.

Al Gore got all that AND a boatload of statuette awards and he STILL hasn’t told the truth about the global warming scam.

Statists don’t like telling the truth when it makes them look bad because it poisons their DNA strands… shortens their lifespan. Or something like that.

When will these powerful, wealthy men understand that when they relinquish ownership of a personal substance that has the potential to create a human being, some gold-digging slut out there is going to take it and do just that??? Hello???

From the 1st moment I met John Edwards, you could see in him that he was a shister. That for all his spit and polish, he was devious and calculating. This only proves my point, and I thank God above that he was never our VP or will never be our President. – Lorica

1) With Kerry as his role model, it’s no wonder His Hollowness hasn’t released his personal info. I mean, we still haven’t seen Frenchy’s war record that was promised so many years ago.

2) When he is old (I was going to say “and feeble”, but he’s always been there) maybe Edwards can channel the spirit of this child to himself, ’cause I’m sure he won’t have anything to do with her before then.

In this case, it was Edwards’ staffer, until the evidence proved too conclusive to ignore or deny.

I’m thinking more of the way leftists approach anything they mess up – Freddie/Fannie, public education, Social Security, tax hikes, etc. You’ll never see a lib step up and say “You know, maybe we were wrong.” Hell, Duh-1 couldn’t even admit he was wrong in jumping to conclusions about the Gates-Crowley incident.

Actually, GWR, all the congresspeople jump in all the time and admit they were wrong.

Trouble is, they always finish it up with “…and here is how to fix it…”

And that’s where our woes are multiplied geometrically.

They can’t run Medicare or Social Security without incurring astronomical debt, yet they want us to believe that if health “insurance” reform is built like Medicare it won’t cost us more than the sum total of wealth on earth?

I’m trying to figure out why he didn’t make this admission when he first confessed to the affair? I mean, at that point his political career was pretty much over – why not go all the way? Then again, as I’ve noted numerous times before, this man is a slick pathological liar and will dodge and weave and lie on just about any issue.

I’ve got to admit: I never thought of that particular angle. He could have gotten all of the bad news out on the table, one time, and gotten it out of the news.

I suppose it’s possible that Mr Edwards didn’t absolutely know at the time, or was somehow trying to spare Mrs Edwards one more bit of anguish, but that might be giving your former senator a bit too much credit.

You know, the sad part about all this is one day that little girl will be old enough to look up all the stories of this sordid affair; her father denying her, her mother enabling him to deny her, her father’s wife referring to her as “it” etc.

She’s the only innocent one out of the bunch and yet she’s the one who will carry the shame all her life.